mumbles and jumbles!

Today is a icky rainy day. Perfect for sitting in and doing some studying. lol Now that I have two papers out of the way, I have one more to attend to. This one is cut from a different cloth. It relates to fishing tourism in the early 20's century in USA. I will then give an historical background into the Lake Apopka area, it's heavy tourism days and then the beginnings of the death of the lake due to muck farming/technology/pestisides, etc. It's historical. Ethnographies will begin in the fall to study the present (as they have been cleaning up the lake).

My moronic neighbors were blaring their music. They are my friends on my FB account. I figured the best way to tell them to turn it down is to complain on FB! The direct approach does not work with them. The music is now off. :D Yeah!

It is raining in typical Florida fashion now.....so I better begin to get all my sources/notes, etc in order. I may have up to 30 sources for this paper.

anthrogeek10

Blog looks like one hot mess

Who designed this mess? I will change it soon. Oh--I wanted to add "color". Not what happened. lol

Today I did some excavating. It was ok. The weather was amazing and I got to see Gunner the horse who eats our chips. Today, I hid the chips and brought him organic apples instead. What did we find? Lots of mortar building material, glass sherds, rusty nails and at the second level, we have 2 exposed fully intact bottles of some kind. Hopefully not modern ones. We shall see.
I am not going to be posting much at all until May! I will post my papers and thats about it. So long for now....
anthrogeek10

New paper coming soon

Ok, I am getting ready to begin paper two. I again need to compare 2 ethnographies. I did not choose well (in the beginning) from the four given soooo....these are a bit of a challenge. lol

Staging Tourism: Bodies on Display from Waikiki to Sea World.
The Red Riviera (Post-socialist tourism in Bulgaria).

I have a few ideas and I wrote down some notes....
1. I can compare the two along gender lines such as the centrality of women in the tourist industry and 2).Comparing the styles of tourism in the post-socialist period vs. after capitalism/colonialism (Hawaii). I think number one I can run with but two needs work. lol I really only need two main comparative topics other than the authors' backgrounds.

Today I am upset. My disposal is broken and has been but they do not claim it to be broken. I am irritated. I clogged it purposely to prove my point. lol I am calling tomorrow.

There are some other things I want to discuss on this blog but I am not sure who is looking here. I do not know what to do.
Peace out folks
anthrogeek10

update

I just joined (for the second time in my life) the direct sales company Tastefully Simple. The products are really fabulous! I am looking to bring in more income and to possibly grow this to full time for the summer.

www.tastefullysimple.com


That said my life is hectic and crazy!! I work as much as I can while trying to juggle the stress of a graduate class. I am really overwhelmed...forgive my absence for sometime.

anthrogeek10

Hodgepodge

My vacation will be quite short but I am also looking forward to it. My husband, my sister and her family and me of course will be going to Largo and it is 10 minutes away from the ocean...sweet.

I started my new job yesterday and they gave all of the trainees about 3 pounds of shrimp each. That is awsome! They took us out for a nice lunch too. The new job will start for me next weekend, as this weekend I will be away. I do have to drive around with her tomorrow to meet store managers of the places I will be working.

I have an archaeology class starting next week as well. I am looking forward to having more structure in my life again. Seems the more I have going on, the more I accomplish. I don't know why that is.

I am still fiddling with the schedule for next year. I theoretically have 3 semesters left. Time will tell regarding that because I applied for an internship with the US State Dept. I may want to get into diplomacy/government service as a career. If I get the internship, I will NOT do Honors in the Major. If I don't, I will do the HIM program (I should get accepted).

Just some hodgepodge stuff to talk about.

anthrogeek10

Growth

I never thought someone could grow while earning their bachelors degree but I must say, I have. Particularly at UCF. I have learned so much more about the world around me and I am looking forward to moving along to the next phase of this process. Many times, I put so much emphasis on *finishing*, I do not enjoy the process. I had my snakes vet tell me once..."Enjoy the process...don't live completely for what is to come..". I tend to forget these words alot; more than I should.

Speaking of growth, I need to go and plow through the Abassid Empire stuff not to mention the Ottomans and Safavids. lol

anthrogeek10 who wants this semester to end. Less than one week to learn the ups and downs of the 600 year Ottoman Empire...

Book sale

For all those who know me, know I love books. So much that I will use my last dollar on a book. Today, my DH (dear husband) and I went to a Friends of the Library Book Sale. They were my friend today! :) I did not find too many novels but found an awesome dictionary, a writers guide, some cookbooks and books for the kids (my nephew and my brand new niece). My husband found some sci-fi. Not my cup-o-tea! :) I found a book called The Cultural Literacy Guide (or something like that). I didn't buy it though. Good thing we managed a run to the car after the sale. There was a art festival (where we bought nothing!) next door. We hung out, and I made myself sick on funnel cake. Goodness, I ate almost the whole thing. Do NOT send me nutritional info on that. I am not interested. :) It's a tradition after the book sale.

School is going well. I am still an 'A' student. I still have one class I am not liking but that is par for the course at some point in school.......

I wikll write some more posts that have some depth to them. I am really busy these days (like the rest of the world huh??).
peace out, anthrogeek10